પરિશિષ્ટ
પા. 54 પર ઉલ્લેખ છે એ કિનકેઈડનું કાવ્ય :
Would you know the joys of waking ere the
earliest dawn is breaking,
Lest the cheetul at the pool should drink his fill ?
Would you know the joys of sitting till the nightbirds are
aflitting,
That the panther may return unto his kill ?
You shall know them at Tellala
where the Hirun rushes foaming,
As it strives in vain to batter down its weir
Where the sambhur bells the night
through to the hinds that may be roaming,
And the lions wake the echoes of Gir.
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Has your heart never throbbed to breaking
While the sounder quits cover ?
While your mare stands like a statue till
the squeaker rush is over,
For she knows the boar is lurking in the brake.
Would you know the endless gallop till
the buck is surrounded ?
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Or the grey wolf struggles silent on your spear ?
Would you know the joy unrivalled
When the blue bull staggers wounded
As the blade is through his barrel-driven sheer ?
Yes, Kathiland, I love you, right from Bavli to Porbundar
Under any sort of aspect, any skies.
